Last season saw anything but a typical first round in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. All the favorites, or every higher seed ...

W elcome to SportsLine on Friday, April 18. The NBA's Play-In Tournament concludes with a doubleheader tonight and the No. 8 ...

The latter of those matchups, which is Mikko Rantanen and the Dallas Stars' meeting with the Colorado Avalanche should be the ...

There are no style points once the Stanley Cup Playoffs begin. Once a team punches a ticket to the postseason, it has a ...

The NHL set an attendance record in 2024-25, drawing 23,014,458 fans over 1,312 regular-season games, the league announced ...

An infusion of young talent fresh to the league in recent weeks, a handful of veterans in their mid-to-late 30s chasing the Stanley Cup and the best goaltender in the league this season looking to ...

The playoff field features teams located across the US and Canada, from Washington and Montreal to Winnipeg and Edmonton.

One top seed has never won a Stanley Cup. The other wasn't expected to make the playoffs at all. And a pair of brothers who ...

Which eight teams will advance to the second round of the NHL's Stanley Cup playoffs? USA TODAY weighs in with first-round ...

The Colorado Avalanche and Dallas Stars are two of the top Stanley Cup contenders in the NHL, but one won’t even see the ...

New Jersey has made the playoffs only three times in the past 13 seasons but expects to kick off a new era — even without ...

The Battle of Florida, between the Florida Panthers and Tampa Bay Lightning, and the Colorado Avalanche-Dallas Stars matchup ...